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Thursday 2 August 2007, 1:28 PM
Human technology
According to the white paper, intelligent organisational charts are a new breed of chart designed to drive increased productivity across the entire enterprise. The report revealed how organisations can navigate HR data from a secure and unified web-based organisation chart, extract HR analytics and conduct collaborative planning scenarios to model and optimise the workforce.
I guess this could be useful in mergers and acquisitions where major organisational challenges are taking place and human resource departments must make fast-paced, mission-critical decisions about the workforce that will affect merger success and stockholder value.
Well, so much for HumanConcepts and their white paper. The question is, I suppose, what’s the difference between the good old-fashioned term ‘personnel’ and the now much preferred label ‘human resources’. According to my brother-in-law. “About ten grand a year.” Ouch! Sorry.
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Hi Adrian:
Thanks for bringing the spotlight to bear on the question of how Human Resources departments can show real value to their organizations.
For most companies, people are the majority of their expense. We all know that a motivated, well-managed team is going to significantly outperform one that isnt (I can bring up some good soccer examples ;) ) - so it stands to reason that execs should pay some more attention to the question of optimizing their workforce. Well run companies see 'Human Capital Management' as a strategic issue - not an administrative one. This is way beyond processing payroll checks and handling vacation requests - the old 'personnel department' role.
At its highest level, what the new generation of org charts do is give execs and managers a real-time, intuitive view of who their people are, where they are and how they're performing. Its their dashboard into the organization. Whenever there is a change (which is always), its easy for managers to move people around on the chart and calculate and communicate the affects on the organization. We're seeing among our HR customers a huge increase in efficiency and speed of decision making after implementing an org charting solution - which is why these tools are starting to get a lot of attention in the HR community.
Having said all that :) - let your brother in law know that we can get that 10 grand up to about 50 grand if he watches this video (its easier than reading a whitepaper) - but he has to keep it a secret between us... ;)
http://www.orgplus.com/enterprise/showcase/
Martin Sacks
Founder and CEO, HumanConcepts
